Hedvig Lindahl grew up in Marmorbyn, a few kilometers outside Katrineholm.
In his summer talk, Sommar i P1, the 39-year-old national team goalkeeper recounts a story from his childhood in the Sörmland countryside.
When she was four years old, Lindahl was busy in a barn with her three-year-old sister and her friend of the same age.
When the girls were going out of the barn, they went wrong and had to take the road past the cows to get out of there.
- The fear, even the peel fills me.
I dare not go past the big animals.
My sister is brave.
Her friend too.
But I solidify.
I see them running past the big animals.
They dare to take the path out that goes behind their big scary legs, which can kick backwards.
I found an alternative route, a door to my left, she says in the radio program.
"I got stuck and screamed"
The door led straight down a sea of cow dung and like quicksand she sank farther and farther down.
She believes that it is not entirely uncommon for accidents to occur in the handling of waste from cows.
- Here the story about me could have ended.
Four years old.
I got stuck and screamed.
I could not get out for myself.
I realize today that I had a heavenly turn.
This time the story ended happily for Hedvig Lindahl.
Her stepmother Nina came to the rescue and got the four-year-old out of the cow dung.
- I now realize that she saved my life, she says.
Summer in P1 is released as a podcast at 07.00 and is broadcast on P1 at 13.00.